Volume 13, Issue 2
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Announcing Scholar@UC
It is with great fanfare that we announce the name of UC’s Next Generation Digital Repository: Scholar@UC. A digital repository makes accessible, enables re-use, stores, organizes and preserves the full range of an…
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A Note from the Dean: Recent Activity of the Mellon Grant Project
In late 2012, the University of Cincinnati Libraries were awarded a $58,000 Scholarly Communications and Information Technology Program planning grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to define and describe the key skills…
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Exploring Digital Humanities at UC
By Arlene Johnson, Associate Senior Librarian, Digital Humanities Strategist, Selector and Liaison for the Romance Languages and Literatures Department Exactly what is digital humanities? Many definitions have been expressed in scholarly publications (see…
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A View into Special Collections
By Steve Marine, Associate Dean of Digital Initiatives, Special Collections, Preservation and Grants UC Libraries’ special collections provide scholars, both local and global, access to rare books and other rare materials such as…
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Why UC’s Colors are Red and Black
By Greg Hand. An excerpt from the script of a UC History lecture: http://youtu.be/VBrZrge6KAo An 1881 editorial in the Academica, UC’s early student newspaper, called for colors: “The great majority of American colleges…
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UC Libraries Recognized for Our Participation in LAUNCH Transition Program
Lorna Newman, head of the Interlibrary Services and Access Department in Langsam Library, was recently presented with a plaque recognizing UC Libraries’ partnership with Sycamore High School and its LAUNCH program. The Launch…
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Exhibiting the Top Illustrated Children’s Books
Schackleton’s Journey, Harlem Hellfighters, Poems by Haitian Schoolchildren and Time for Bed, Fred – these are just some of the books included in the new UC Libraries exhibit featuring the top illustrated books…
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Thank You
As you gather with friends and families on Thanksgiving and think of all the things you are thankful for in your own lives, the librarians, staff and students of UC Libraries would like…
